March 22 – Women’s History Month – Fearless Females

March 22 – If a famous director wanted to make a movie about one of your female ancestors who would it be? What actress would you cast in the role and why?

To answer this topic I will say that if a film could be made about any of my female ancestors, then I would suggest my dear late Aunt Margaret (1916 – 1999) who I featured in the March 21 post of this series.

She was a career women and continued working until she was 80 years old. Only a heart attack stopped her!! She survived that but felt it was then time to retire.

All through my younger years I remember my Aunt was always travelling about in the world for her business but also for holidays where she would go mountain climbing, ski-ing, hiking and so on. To me Aunt Margaret was a bit of an adventuress, so if a film was made about her, it would have to be action-packed!

Original photograph in my private collection - copyright 2011

The actress I would choose to play my Aunt Margaret would be Annette Crosbie. She is more known these days as being the long-suffering wife of Victor Meldrew in One Foot In The Grave.

The reason I would choose Annette is because whenever I have seen her over the years, she has always reminded me of my Aunt Margaret.

Here is a pic of the actress Annette Crosbie taken from the internet from an article at: www.mirror.co.uk

Original photograph from mirror.co.uk website

I think this actress and my Aunt Margaret look very similar and so I think Annette would be perfectly cast.

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YOUR ANCESTORS

If you could see your ancestors
All standing in a row
Would you be proud of them
Or don't you really know?
Some strange discoveries are made
In climbing family trees
And some of them, you know
Do not particularly please!

If you could see your ancestors
All standing in a row
There might be some of them, perhaps
You wouldn't care to know
But here's another question, which
Requires a different view ...
If you could meet your ancestors
Would they be proud of you?(Author unknown)